Ranger skills

[stanislav]

I have a problem with figuring out how few of ranger skills work and helpfiles about these skills dont make any sense. Does anyone know what 'quick draw' skill actually does or how to force beast call skill to call for beasts(100% skill)?

[Olyn]

quick draw for rangers means you can pull out a bow without first removing a shield or your dual wield.

beast call - you have to be in forest type rooms and high enough level to get some of the beasts

falcon - someone in your pk enters area

boar - you butcher a corpse

wolf - you warcry

etc.

[stanislav]

[Smotpoker]

i think quick draw and offhand alacrity are tied together (probably wrong) with offhand alacrity you can switch to any style regardless of what style you are in. For example you can switch from shield to dual without typing remove shield, dual dagger and what have you, but I normally never get a bow for my rangers till around lvl 25-35+ when the bows start to get pretty decent for combat. So I never really got the chance to mess around with quick draw by its self sorry.

For Beast call one way to train it is to get around lvl 30-ish and either walk around killing things in one hit (like goblins) and go to town butchering the corpses for a boar to show up or get someone in pk range to enter and exit a forest type area for a falcon to show up. Either way it's going to take a long ass time to train it.

I don't know how long you spent going dual then wielding a bow to train the skill but I find that most skills like quick draw, quick wield and offhand alacrity take a good bit of time to improve every once in a while. Sometimes it will jump up quick and other times it takes up to 3-4 hours of spamming to get a single point.

Not sure if my rambling helped at all but there it is.....

Also why is it so hard to find a decent bow at low lvls?
Or maybe the bows just don't "feel" like they do the same damage as the other lowbie weapons.....